Facts about Tertullian

Tertullian was a famous Author from Rome.

Our collection contains 28 quotes who is written / told by Tertullian.

28 Famous quotes by Tertullian

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit"

"Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache"

"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder"

"The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain"

"The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed"

"Out of the frying pan, into the fire"

"Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame"

"It is certain because it is impossible"

"Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy"

"Fear is the foundation of safety"

"He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies"

"You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing"

"The nature of rumor is known to all"

"See how these Christians love one another"

"Christians are made, not born"

"He who flees will fight again"

"Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage"

"You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine"

"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"

"Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not"

"The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'"

"The entire fruit is already present in the seed"

"Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it"

"The first reaction to truth is hatred"

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church"

"Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy"

"Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money"

"It is certain because it is possible"